Daily Meditation: Tuesday, January 7, 2003

You can make plans, you can set goals, but life is such …

01/07/2003

You can make plans, you can set goals, but life is such that you can never count on anything, not on events and even less on human beings. And it is useless to bemoan the fact: it is so. You will say that you need to count on your parents, on your friends, on your colleagues. That is true, but you must know that sometimes they will think of you, but more often than not they will forget you, because they have their own worries and their own preoccupations. So, do not count so much on their love and fidelity, and understand that it is within yourself that you must establish something stable. Yes, it is time to begin to know the nature of things and to understand what you should do to avoid one disappointment after another. Since you need love in order to be happy, since you feel it is love that makes you blossom, that inspires you, and since you want your love to last for eternity, well then, love, but do not wait to be loved. If those you love return your love and your trust, so much the better, give thanks to heaven, but do not count on it. On this condition alone will you always be independent and master of the situation.